Usually means: Decomposed organic matter on forest floor.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. duff: Merriam-Webster
  2. duff, duff, duff, duff, duff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duff, duff, duff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. duff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. duff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Duff, Duff, duff: Wordnik
  7. duff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DUFF, Duff, duff: Wiktionary
  9. duff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. duff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. duff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Duff, duff: Dictionary.com
  13. duff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Duff (dessert), Duff (disambiguation), Duff (food), Duff (gruppo musicale), Duff (surname), Duff, The DUFF (novel), The DUFF, The Duff (novel), The Duff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Duff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. duff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. duff: Rhymezone
  18. Duff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Duff: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. duff: FreeDictionary.org
  21. duff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. duff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. duff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. duff: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. duff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. DUFF: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. duff: Idioms
  5. duff: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. duff, duff, duff, duff, duff, duff, duff, duff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. duff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. D.U.F.F, D.U.F.F, DUFF, Duff (D.U.F.F.), duff (v.) (eng.): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duff: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See duffing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dialectal) Dough.
noun:  A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
noun:  A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.
noun:  (Scotland, Northwestern US, British Columbia) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
noun:  Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
noun:  Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
noun:  (British) A mixture of coal and rock.
noun:  (slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
noun:  Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit; a worthless thing; a defective thing.
noun:  (baseball, slang) An error.
adjective:  (UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
noun:  (US, slang) The buttocks.
verb:  (slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
verb:  (slang, obsolete) To sell spurious goods, often under pretence of their being stolen or smuggled.
verb:  (Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
verb:  (US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Nebraska, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States.
noun:  (countable) A male given name.
noun:  Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”) [(music) A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.]
noun:  (slang, derogatory) Acronym of dumb/designated ugly fat friend, an attractive woman's less attractive friend

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